#forums
Scottish university agreed to monitor students for arms company
Extremely disappointing #Heriot-Watt University doesn’t respect, prioritise #students over corporations
The Uni will monitor student #chat groups and #discussion #forums for talk of any planned #protest, monitoring #CCTV for signs of #groups #gathering, and having an “enhanced” physical presence on the day to “help safeguard the #Raytheon employees attending.”
I love the Fediverse, but I still believe in forums, especially for niche topics and communities. (I've been running a forum dedicated to beer since the late 90s.)
Probably need to explore federated forum options at some point...when I can find some spare time.
We run a forum. We probably talk about that a lot.
But still. It's a nice place and we'd like you to join it. If you'd like to join it. And all that.
Anyway the link is here, we're not your aunt or your boss:
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php
@0x75BCD15@c.im
You said it yourself, that post was very much edited.
The big thing I dislike about Linux Support Forums is how they tend to gate keep and even shame people. Then when someone finally has had enough, and they call people out, those same people will go back, edit their post, and make it seem like you're the bad guy with their now, newly sensible and newly reasonable comments.
You'll notice (in my post history), I'm still having a few minor issues, but am I being helped? No. Anyone, right now, could shut me up, and shut me down, but folks rather go on with the nonsense, which only further validates my claim that AI can be more helpful.
And as you said, even after they edited their post, they still could not help themselves.
#NixOs #Nix #Linux #SupportForums #Forums
In fact, the NixOS Community, continues to prove exactly why AI will replace Support Forums.
An AI is not going to troll you, or judge you, or criticize you. An AI will answer your questions, and not gate keep you.
Yes, sometimes that AI is not always correct, but neither are people. At least the AI will point you in the right direction.
#Linux #SupportForums #Forums #NixOS
I've recently started using the hikari3 imageboard and its very nice. Its awesome that in the rules, it explicitly bans any AI generated content. Here is the link for anyone interested
https://hikari3.ch
#imageboards #forums #noai #fuckai #antiai
@elebertus@mastodon.social
If more people thought like that, it would be great!
#Linux #SupportForums #Forums
Linux Forum Supports often be like:
You want help? You mean you're not perfect? You're implying that you are not all knowing, like the rest of us? Smite him! Smite him, now!
That is the problem with Linux Support Forums.
#Linux #Forums #SupportForums
@zstg@fedia.social
That is one of the cool things about NixOS, is you can do things differently. True, the documentation is poorly written and seldom kept up to date. But the underline ability to make it your own is there.
The problem is their support community suffers, a common problem many Linux Support Communities suffer from. Far too many jerks who are unhelpful and gate keep. You spend a good amount of your time trying to figure something out, going to the forums as a last resort, and you damn regret doing so shortly after submitting your post.
#Linux #Forums #SupportForums
@starlight To NixOS's credit, most of the people here on the Fediverse are friendly and helpful. There are good people who use NixOS.
But they're not on the community forums. And if they are, I never noticed them or encountered them.
That said, it is still a good OS.
#NixOS #Nix #Linux #Forums #SupportForums
The golden rule for support forums should be, if you have nothing to actually add to help someone achieve their goal, then you should shut the fuck up.
If all you're going to do is criticize someone's efforts, without offering a working solution, you should shut the fuck up.
If you add no value to the conversation, you most certainly should, shut the fuck up.
#Linux #Forums #SupportForums
@Okanogen@mastodon.social
Toxicity is not proportional to size for the community, or development. I have witnessed both new developments, trying to gain momentum, and old developments that old school users swore by, act the same regardless.
It seems truly to be the only universal standard within the Linux ecosystem. Generally speaking, Support Forums, suck. They're filled with unhelpful people who would rather argue, debate, and gate keep more times than not.
There are, of course, a few exceptions, but not many.
#Linux #Forums #SupportForums
I also dread people who ask "why" you want to do something.
Because more often than not, "why" is going to turn into a debate, instead of the person trying to better understand my goal. "Why" is often used as a gateway to tell me you'd do it differently, completely ignoring that I want to do something, this way, without your feedback on the matter.
It would be so different if the person replied with, "well here is how you do it your way, but I would consider doing it this way, and here is why" -- That would be helpful and productive. I would welcome that, very much.
Instead, you get, "Why" followed by, "this is how I do it, and I am going to ignore your method of doing it". And their method likely is incompatible with my other random things I've already have working, and so they likely lead to another thing and another thing and another -- It is my PC, not yours, and I'll use it however I like.
#Linux #Foss #Forums #SupportForums
Support forums in 2025 suck and fuck, I don't care if people judge me, I'm going to rely more on AI, because AI is not going to debate me on why or how I do things.
Yes, sometimes the AI is wrong, but so is the human, but the difference is the human is far more judgmental and adversarial. And when I am pressed for time, I do not want to waste my time debating or arguing, or trying to prove myself to someone, when all I want to helpful results.
#Forums #SupportForums #Linux #Foss
RE: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a8j4hnbyrme203ku
Topic thumbnails, uploads, and media display
There have been some scattered feedback on a change I made for v4.0.0 that caught some people off-guard: Uploaded media is now shown in addition to topic thumbnails.
I'll start with why this change was made, and then solicit feedback.
The why
v4.0.0 introduced ActivityPub integration into NodeBB. This added dimension meant that content was consumed in a manner that was similar, but unfamiliar to NodeBB, and so much of the work involved normalizing that data into a format that made sense. (As an aside, I tell people that that's pretty much 99% of my job — glueing together APIs. I jest, but it's also basically true.)
One of those unfamiliar aspects was uploaded media in the form of attachments. NodeBB had discrete concepts of inline media and topic thumbnails, but attachments were something different entirely. Attachments were not inlined in the text (they tended to be added before or after the main content), and thumbnails were images only, while attachments could be lots of other things.
The second part was that a lot of the content I received relied on media to do the heavy lifting. Oftentimes the text would be minimal and in response to the attachment. After all, a picture's worth a thousand words.
Given those two things, I allowed NodeBB to consume and store attachments separately, and updated the topic thumbnail retrieval logic to pull media from both post attachments and inline media. That retrieval logic is what governs what you see next to the title. I also decided on the all-in approach because while NodeBB has multiple ways of slotting media, majority of ActivityPub software generally only uses attachments. This means both inline media and topic thumbnails were unceremoniously shoved into attachments when federating outward. There is movement toward changing this, and so this rationale may no longer make sense today.
I initially did have concerns that perhaps this would dilute the meaning and specificity of the "topic thumbnail", but I also wagered that the UX improvement of promoting any and all media found would be of greater benefit.
Your turn — feedback!
Maybe I'm wrong!
- Perhaps the media row is best used to showcase topic thumbnails and post attachments only (not inlined media.)
- Perhaps a configurable option would appease all folks (although I'm usually loathe to add options purely for that reason.)
And yes, #Fentanyl is so dangerous, even most #Darknet #Markets and #Forums ban that shit for that reason alone and #dealers started to offer free Test Kits to check for it in their merchandise.
- Cuz it's one thing to draw attention for a #VictimlessCrime but having an actual body count escalates things very quickly, cuz then it's not a "narcotics" but a "murder" division taking on the cases!
OFC, this is due to the #OpioidCrisis started with #Oxycontin / #Oxycodon and #criminalization isn't helping anyone.
- What is needed is #HarmReduction and #Outreach efforts, but that would require a different #Government not just in the #USA!
"One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums" https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-move-champions-neverwinter-star-trek-support-faq
One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-move-champions-neverwinter-star-trek-support-faq #Discord #Forum #Forums
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